March 12th

The God who sees

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March 12, 2023   

Series:   A Table in the Wilderness

Modeled after Jesus’ forty days in the desert, Lent is a time to become more open to God through the vulnerabilities of life. It comes with an especially poignant invitation to join with others in bringing our doubt, fear, sorrow, loneliness, and dryness before God, hoping to taste God’s promised provision in the deserts of life.  Can God really spread a table before us in the presence of global and personal fears and sorrow? The answer, of course, is yes! God spreads a table before us in the wilderness, in the face of all our greatest fears (Psalm 23:5). This series highlights one biblical character each week along with the way God provided food for them in their wildernesses.   This week:  God’s wilderness provision of water and a future for Hagar & Ishmael (Genesis 21). 

LENT 3           ‘The God who sees’

Scripture:      Genesis 21 

To watch a child die is a sorrow no parent should ever have to endure.  In today’s story, Hagar, abandoned by Abraham and Sarah, takes her son out into the wilderness, fearing the worst.  But, God is with Ishmael (the first person in Genesis about whom that is said).  Hagar and Ishmael do count and are not forgotten by God.

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IMAGE –  Hagar in the desert (Marc Chagall)